How The West Was Lost (Book) - 4/7/2003 10:31:23 AM
This is an extremely funny book about the Old West as told from the point of view of the Indians. Reminds me so much of "F Troop" in the old days, or any of Mel Brooks' hilarious movies.
At times I was laughing so hard tears ran down my face. This is highly recommended for anyone who would like a lighter look at the old west. Pick up a copy soon... you'll be glad you did. Believe me; you will see much more of this talented and humorous writer in the future.
How The West Was Lost (Book) - 1/19/2003 3:55:21 PM
Wow! This would make a hilarious screenplay! Stories of the Old West from a different perspective. If you liked Blazing Saddles, you'll sure enjoy this!
How The West Was Lost (Book) - 1/19/2003 11:07:46 AM
George, wonderful style of writing. The concept of using the Indian's perspective on how the west was lost is marvelous. Best to you...Valerie M. Boggess
How The West Was Lost (Book) - 1/1/2003 11:10:53 AM
Love it...great idea...Good luck with book sales..we always need things to laugh about...inner aerobics..healthy for ya..Again, good luck!
How The West Was Lost (Book) - 12/26/2002 9:00:42 AM
George Albitz unique writing style and sense of humor comes through brillantly in How The West Was Lost. The reader is given the opportunity to view the old west from an Indian's perspective. Truely a witty point of view of the whiteman. A must read for anyone who enjoys reading about the old west!
Shot/No Shot (Article) - 10/31/2021 11:12:48 AM
I agree with you that is idiotic to have some idiotic reason for not getting all the immunity that we can even if it is inconvenient because the virus shows signs of being long-term and difficult for older people to survive easily.
I will wait to there's a firm plan before I get my booster.
Ron
Spark Plug (Article) - 10/6/2021 9:13:57 AM
You put a little spark in this plug for do-it-yourself auto maintenance. Good for you and cylinder #1, too!
Ron
Crazy Bone (Article) - 9/15/2021 10:30:54 AM
When I used to hit my crazy bone, I would cry out like a wolf in heat. That's how crazy it was. Glad that I don't do that anymore.
Ron
History of Garbage (Article) - 9/9/2021 9:24:12 AM
When I was a child in the northern Midwest where we were civilized, we had an alley specifically for those things. The garbage truck would come down the alley that was wide enough for it, and the garbage men (two in those days) on either side, would empty our galvanized garbage cans and even put the covers back on so that they wouldn't stink up the neighborhood.
Finally and in ending, those modern garbarjee trucks are the first example of artificial intelligence. How else could the truck find those bins to pick up so inappropriately placed by half-asleep homeowners before they go off to their long commute to work? Of course the next artificial intelligence will be to have those trucks have no driver, just be able to smell garbage and pick it up. And for the final intelligence, convince homeowners not to create any garbage at all. Especially the stinky kind… Composting it into tasty vegetables right at home… Yummy!
Ron
More GFI (Article) - 9/5/2021 2:25:11 PM
I guess I missed the first episode. But I'm glad you found your GFI and pushed the button that solved everything. When my GFI failed, an electrician persuaded me to "upgrade" to current code. After becoming several thousand dollars lighter, I feel no safer.
The damn ants in my outdoor electrical outlet are back that cause me to call him that electrician in the first place after we almost had a fire. Fortunately in this case, where there was smoke, there was no fire, just a lot of burned wire.
Ron
Smoke (Article) - 8/28/2021 12:20:19 PM
It must be hell to be in the path of those smoky wildfires. I already have itchy eyes from staring at this overheated LED screen too long each day, drying my eyeballs out to the point where, while I don't feel it, my eyelids, that have feeling start to itch and smart like now buddy's business. And of course, I can't ease the situation until someone comes with some soothing water to hydrate them again and stop the itchies.
Here's looking at you, kid. Or something like that… She was a darn sight prettier.
Ron
Sick Society (Article) - 8/19/2021 12:50:10 PM
You struck home with this one. During our annual Christmas party, the Peru born head of carpentry played me as part of a parody of our vice president and directors. His shtick was to walk haltingly across the stage on the way to the restroom with a cup of coffee spilling most of it in the process. He nailed me perfectly, but I got a feeling when everybody screamed with laughter that he might've gone a bit too far.
I live in a [sic] society. It seems every time I put together an article, story or even a book, as I start to read it later I have to go back and put [sic] here and [sic] there. Sometimes I wish I could sic a dog after my spoken words that Dragon gets wrong in my writing. So I guess I better get my rabies shot to stop my wandering words forever.
Ron
Microwaveable (Article) - 8/15/2021 9:33:02 AM
It's all those little microwaves waving their way through our bodies that is warping our brains and turning them into parboiled mush. Why I resorted to char burning everything so that it has a nice charcoal patina and is raw inside, giving me the best of all worlds and ensuring my death from either flesh eating bacteria or cancer, whichever comes first.
And continue breathing those vaporized plastic containers when you open the multitudinous coded microwave goodies door. Guaranteed to make you eventually, swim with the fishes in the sea where all plastics wannabe.
Ron
Delusions Part 3 (Article) - 8/5/2021 12:28:36 PM
My five year younger cousin once showed me his bow that he got for Christmas. I thought I would give it a try, so I pulled the string back and it broke in the middle right where I was holding it. My cousin immediately went back in the house to tell his dad what had happened. My dad was there and got involved… "Ron, I don't want you playing with other people's things again. You break everything you touch!"
I guess I'm not Olympic material like you.
Ron
Memories of Me (Article) - 7/21/2021 9:03:28 AM
I wasn't thinking about Memories of Me, the movie… So I'm over and out. Thinking of me.
Ron
The Plot (Article) - 7/20/2021 11:13:45 AM
Oh, ship! Now all those gravediggers that dug all those holes in Boot Hill will come storming down into town demanding their or they will be leaving those graves open so that drunks will fall in on their way up on the hill to bay at the moon.
Ron
IDEAS SYLU (Article) - 7/19/2021 9:18:48 AM
Breaking news! (Who broke it?) Man shot at a four car traffic accident. Now that's road rage taken to extreme. If the crash don't kill you, get a gun and execute it properly.
Ron
Support Your Local Undertaker (Article) - 7/18/2021 9:37:29 AM
I agree, you can't leave undertaking out of the trilogy, it just ain't fair. Like a fellow freshman used to answer the phone, "Joe's Morgue. You stab em, we slab em." Is probably the most lucrative job in the Old West towns.
Get busy on that plot right away. How deep do you want me to dig it? We hit bedrock at 12 inches.
Ron
The Unconscious Mind (Article) - 7/10/2021 9:24:09 AM
It is amazing how many students learn while unconscious in the classroom. I had to use humor to try to get them from falling asleep.
This is the third time today that I have read about the unconscious mind. The first was Sherwin Hojat's article on how the unconscious mind controls nearly everything we do. And then, another article referring to the unconscious mind, and finally yours. What an interesting coincidence.
I'm going off autopilot now… Over and out.
Ron
West World? (Article) - 6/21/2021 10:17:49 AM
I don't remember the scene. The gunfights were rather passé. The best was the gunfight in High Noon with all the doubt and agony… "Do not forsake me, oh my darling!"
I feel the best part of West World was their depiction of the robots shut down of their costumes to their fabulous flesh. I know it probably was a bit cold for those actors with all those hot lights and camera on them, but I bet the crew was is turned on as I was to see some of the female stars allowing techs to work on them nonchalantly.
Ron
Real Stupider (Article) - 6/20/2021 8:40:06 AM
I stupider don't get it, but I'm rather dense today.
But I think it proves why we should not commercialize our mail system. Can you imagine UPS, FedEx, Uber and Lyft, along with other competitors, throwing our mail over the fence to be rained on the entire weekend while we are skiing in Banff?
Well, I can imagine it. I can imagine the coyotes opening the letters, too, so they can lick the sweet tasting sealer on the envelopes.
Isn't that special?
Ron
Does Anybody Know Mel Brooks? (Article) - 6/16/2021 8:36:59 AM
What a wonderful idea! I don't know Mel Brooks from Adam, whatever. But I would sure like to see that movie. I did get to Custard's Last Stand once, but there was no soft ice cream available out in that barren grassy hillside in the middle of nowhere. I was really disappointed, like Custer was when the arrows were reining in on him and he saw his delusions of glory like becoming president fade from view as his blood left his body.
I looked for blood and bones at that lonesome place, to. But there were nothing like that around anywhere. just the lonely prairie wind and the sound of meadowlarks and whippoorwills in the distance. In the meantime, Crazy Horse's monument grows much larger than Mount Rushmore. Proving that when you rush for more, you get less, Great White Father.
Ron
TAKEN (Article) - 6/12/2021 8:31:36 AM
With American tourists swarming all over Europe in the near future again, I doubt if any of them are worried about international intrigue going on under their noses like seems to happen seasonably now with all the spy and lie movies like taken and the lot being thrown at us like reality--not. Jack Reacher reaches much further, even when he's in Mission Impossible. And then there is another guy created with a natural high kills with his hands with ease.
I love to watch the shows for their entertainment and that is all. For like you, if I tried any of those moves, I would fall. But beware, bad guy if you try to diss me, I'll run my wheelchair into your shin and you'll cry like a baby while you give in.
Ron
Horse Talk (Article) - 6/6/2021 10:37:27 AM
You done forgot about that talking horse on TV! Mister Ed. Could talk up a storm to humans. Or was that a talking donkey?
When horses talk or laugh are they hoarse?
Ron
Profusely (Article) - 5/26/2021 11:14:15 AM
I enjoy breaking apart words like profusely the way you have, just for the fun of it. Let us hope that that fuse doesn't ignite a huge explosion… A fuselage of whatever and wherewithal.
I rest my cases of vodka somewhere but I can't find exactly where. I guess about as long as it took to read this article.
Ron
Losing Ticket (Article) - 5/19/2021 10:11:37 AM
Quite a story, nicely contrived. Had a fellow come into my office one day, a school furniture salesman supplier. He told me he was a Louisville one time when the Derby was on so he went out of curiosity even though he was black. To beat the crowd leaving, he left early and was walking down in front of a roll of cars when a limousine driver "accidentally" slipped his foot off the brake while idling and pinned him up against another car, crushing his legs. Fortunately he was able to walk again had to walk into my office after surgery and rehabilitation.
Mattress Mac (I wrote a poem about him and JJ Watt who is abandoning Houston for bigger bucks) placed 2.4 million on the favorite to win. His sales pitch that he has tried before was that if the favorite won, none of the furniture buyers during that promotion would have to pay for their furniture (he has reimbursed all buyers opting for that contract in the past). But like you, is lame horse came in fourth. Poor guy is now out 3.4 mil that he will use like Trump to declare as a loss against his highly profitable business.
Mattress Mac gives back without doing it on his back.
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/despite-losing-bet-mcinvgale-racing-come-out-winners/
Ron
The Great Finale (Article) - 4/28/2021 11:16:45 AM
I love it!
That would have been great!!
Time Enough (Article) - 4/28/2021 9:31:49 AM
I do believe that time is relative. And if our relatives aren't in time with us, they won't be relative. I will let Einstein chew on that a while. On Mars, red dust storms last for months earth time. But they are useless because they are not on earth where red dust amounts to iron and when properly dusted on our pristine lawns, makes them glow green, unlike Mars.
Ron
Seinfeld Faux Pas? (Article) - 4/24/2021 8:36:02 AM
Never watched Seinfeld. But how did they get all that stuff in Fibber McGee's closet?
You're right, Hollywood is the door to opening into a world that never existed. The magic of the big screen, makeup, camerawork, close-ups, on location and sets. And finally, in competition with video games, .cgi, making the dreams of writers reality.
In New York City!
Ron
Toughest Million (Article) - 4/17/2021 9:54:12 AM
You left me wondering about euros. But they are no heroes, just blended altogether.
I am approaching both a million and 80, what should I do?
Ron
